[stephengillie]

> they can live migrate your vm to new physical hardware, so no need to have random reboots of your instances

Having supported VMWare at multiple locations, and having worked for a smaller cloud host, it shocks me that AWS don't support live migrations. VMWare can live-migrate VMs between datacenters in different geographic regions, while maintaining active sessions!

[wikibob]

Technical debt. AWS had first mover advantage but now is saddled with the decisions they had to make to move fast at the time.